[pt] O romance Leite de Cadela trata de momentos-chave na vida de uma família, narrados sob o ponto de vista de seus quatro membros. A trama começa com um acidente sofrido pelo pai e a partir daí, mãe e dois filhos se debatem em torno de temas como doença e saúde; educação e infância; experiência e teoria; medicina tradicional e alternativa. Para constituir-se como dissertação acadêmica, os capítulos do romance são interrompidos e comentados por dezenove ensaios breves. Estes integram o trabalho fazendo jogo de afinidades e contrastes, semelhanças e estranhamento com o enredo desdobrado, de modo a iluminar aspectos, na maioria secundários, mas que discutem questões do cotidiano atual. No diálogo da ficção com os miniensaios, evocam-se experiências da autora quando jornalista, como observadora crítica de cinema, teatro, literatura e artigos de informação científica. Busca-se trazer a encenação ficcional, centrada na medicina homeopática para um confronto com tensões e impasses característicos do presente. / [en] The novel Milk of the Dog deals with key-moments in the life of a family, narrated from the point-of-view of its four members. The plot begins with an accident, suffered by the father, and the resulting struggles of the mother and her two children. The story explores the reality of theory vs. experience in issues like health, illness, education, childhood, medicine and therapy. To support the dissertation, the chapters are interrupted and commented on, in nineteen brief essays. They mirror the fiction by reflecting affinities and contrasts, similarities and differences with the unfolding plot. The essays illuminate mostly secondary aspects, but urgent contemporary questions. In the dialogue between fiction and essay, the author s experiences as a journalist and critic are examined, as well as observations about movies, plays, literature and scientific information. We seek to bring fiction, centered on homeopathic therapy, into juxtaposition with currentday tensions and obstacles.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction (or LEED-NC) has become one of the most commonly used green building standards during the turn of the 21st century. While many champion LEED-NC, certain architects and academics believe that its low-environmental impact design approach toward green building isolates people from nature and thus cannot achieve sustainable development over the long-term. Pomona College’s green buildings, including its newest LEED Platinum certified Sontag and Pomona Residence Halls, exemplify this fact, as their designs fail to communicate their sustainable goals or inspire sustainable behavior. By examining the LEED-NC standards, the history of environmental conservation, Modern architecture, biophilia, and the Living Building Challenge, this thesis seeks to provide recommendations for how Pomona College can alter its existing green buildings as well as improve its green building policies for future projects so that its built environment better fosters positive human-nature interactions.

Orientador : Profª. Drª. Célia Arns de Miranda / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa: Curitiba, 31/10/2016 / Inclui referências : f. 165-168 / Resumo: A montagem teatral realizada por Robert Wilson a partir do texto-fonte A dama do mar (1888), de Henrik Ibsen, e de sua reescritura por Susan Sontag (1997) coloca em foco elementos como a voz, a luz, o cenário, a movimentação, a sonoplastia, ou seja, dá ênfase à visualidade e sonoridade. Este estudo analisa os mecanismos utilizados na transposição da obra original para a obra final, passando pela adaptação textual por Sontag, no contexto dos estudos da adaptação. É analisado o processo como a peça é transformada a partir das escolhas de Sontag, como os monólogos de frente para a plateia e a inclusão de textos folclóricos, e da estética de Wilson, que potencializa o substrato simbólico da peça com seu cenário e iluminação repletos de poesia, atuações que simulam o movimento de marionetes, gestual preciso e diálogos e movimentos propositadamente artificiais. Dentre os recursos utilizados para a análise, destaca-se a gravação em DVD do espetáculo apresentado em São Paulo em 2013 e a memória do espetáculo assistido ao vivo pela autora no mesmo ano; a peça de Susan Sontag publicada no Brasil pela editora n-1; entrevistas com atores da montagem, com o tradutor do texto de Sontag e o biógrafo da escritora, entre outras, e críticas sobre o espetáculo publicadas na mídia geral e especializada. A fundamentação teórica é proporcionado pelos estudos de Patrice Pavis, Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam, Hans-Thies Lehmann, entre outros. Palavras-chave: A dama do mar. Adaptação. Robert Wilson. Henrik Ibsen. Susan Sontag. Teatro contemporâneo. / Abstract: The staging by Robert Wilson using the source text The Lady from the Sea, by Henrik Ibsen (1888), and its rewrite by Susan Sontag (1997) highligths elements such as voice, scenery, sound, lights and movement, which means it emphasizes visuality and sonorical aspects. This study analyzes the mechanisms used in the transposition of the original play to the final work, by means of the textual adaptation by Sontag, in the context of the studies of adaptation. The play is transformed because of Sontag's choices, such as the monologues facing the public and the insertion of folk texts. It is furthermore transformed by Wilson's aesthetics, which empowers the simbolic substrate of the original play with his scenery and lights full of poetry, acting that reminds the movement of puppets, precise gesture and artificial dialogue. Among the resources used for this analysis are the recording of the play presented in São Paulo in 2013 as well as the memory of the live show to wich the author attended in the same year; Susan Sontag's Lady from the Sea, published in Brazil by n-1 editions; interviews with actors from the play, its translator to Portuguese and Sontag's biographer, among others, and critic texts about the staging published in the general and specialized media. The theoretic writings of Patrice Pavis, Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam and Hans-Thies Lehmann were used, among others. Key-words: Lady from the Sea. Adaptation. Robert Wilson. Henrik Ibsen. Susan Sontag. Contemporary theater.

Öyvind Fahlström in translation aims to examine how Moderna Museet interpreted Öyvind Fahlström in Manipulate the World – Connecting Öyvind Fahlström; an exhibition that showcased pieces by the postwar artist Öyvind Fahlström together with works by contemporary artists. I understand the exhibition as a ’game of translation’, in which the artworks and the texts connected to Manipulate the World are put in play with previous interpretations of the artist. ’Game of translation’ is a concept that draws on Fahlström’s concept of game, as well as Mieke Bal’s and Susan Sontag’s different understandings on the power dynamics of interpretation. As in the works by Fahlström, Bal and Sontag, the viewer and her interpretations are placed in center of my analysis.  Manipulate the world aimed to ’activate’ Fahlström. Even though the exhibition presented Fahlström as an artist who tried to actively disrupt established narratives, I concluded that the translation of Fahlström presented in and as the exhibition relied heavily on the established history of that same artist. Within the framework of that history, Manipulate the world presented two relatively new readings of Fahlström’s art: they highlighted the presence of colonial and postcolonial criticism in Fahlström’s production and launched an understanding of the artist’s variable paintings as political models.

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The main objective of this thesis is to develop a critical approach to the recent anti-aging discourse which has become popular after the 1990&rsquo / s. Anti-aging movement is concerned with certain implementations which aspire to make individuals live longer and healthier by controlling and disciplining their bodily conditions and lifestyle choices. This study attempts to examine certain perceptions and assumptions of anti-aging discourse about body, living and keeping alive peculiar to late modern times by taking into consideration three popular emblematic anti-aging books. For this aim, the techniques, recommendations, suggestions and basic premises of popular anti-aging books are examined in terms of the question whether anti-aging discourse presents a new project concerning body and lifestyle, or not. In order to answer this question, Foucauldian theory on &ldquo / the power over life&rdquo / and Sontag&rsquo / s approach to &ldquo / the metaphorical representation of illness in late modern times&rdquo / are employed for constructing the theoretical basis of this thesis. The examination of anti-aging discourse reveals that, this discourse redefines the meaning of age and reinterprets human temporality by narrating aging process with certain metaphors. Moreover, it is seen that anti-aging discourse transforms the aging process into a performative sphere by representing the aging as a merely biological and controllable situation.

1 ABSTRAKT HUDZÍKOVÁ, Eliška. Camp Phenomenon and its Manifestation and Forms in Contemporary Popular Music. [Magister thesis]. Charles University on Prague. Faculty of Humanities; Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics. Supervisor: Mgr. Felix Borecký. Professional qualification level: Master's degree. Prague: FHS UK, 2015. This Magister thesis examines the camp phenomenon. Despite the wide scope of the term I will try to come up with a universal definition or several basic definitions which will after serve as a base for my following conclusions. The main source of my thesis is an essay Notes On a Camp written by Susan Sontag. This essay I will apply to contemporary (20th and 21st century) popular music in which I will search for camp signs and campy gestures in the work of independent popular and mainstream artists and performers. The main focus area for this thesis will be primarily visual aspect of their work - costumes, videos, appearance, … The line between campy and not campy is very thin and indefinite, that is why I will try to draw it demonstrating camp signs on chosen samples. I would also try to point out that in contemporary popular culture we consume some forms of camp without being aware that it is actually camp what we consume. KEYWORDS: camp, campy, kitsch, gay culture, popular...

Cléo from 5 to 7 is perhaps the most famous work of influential French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who is often called the "Grande Dame of the New Wave". The depth of symbolism, the richness of imagery, the beginnings of cinécriture (a Varda-ism describing cinema as a form of writing that uses all the tools available to a filmmaker, not just words), and the charm of the story have guaranteed Cléo's popularity with scholars and audiences alike. Current scholarship has tended to focus on a few aspects of Cléo, including her role as a flâneuse, the use of mirrors and the theme of gazing, time and the division of the film into chapters, the female gaze, and femininity. I will examine the thematic of decay, nature, and beauty in Cléo. Beginning by linking it to her more contemporary documentary The Gleaners and I, I will analyze how Varda undermines conventional ideas of health, youth, and beauty by deconstructing Cléo's world through the threat of disease, only to show how Cléo regains autonomy and control of herself by learning to embrace the inevitability of decay in nature, and in her own body. I will rely on the theories in Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain to show how Cléo's changing relationship to her body constitute the profound transformation mentioned at the beginning of the film. I will also examine Cléo's cancer in light of Susan Sontag's essay Illness as Metaphor. We will see how Varda uses cinécriture to express these ideas, especially in regards to the dialogue between characters, visual symbols, and the use of space.

The thesis analyzes how a theoretical framework and method can be formulated to make mental illness visible in photographs posted on social media. The aim is to create a basis for further research. The framework is built on time, conversation, and language. Based on Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and W J T Mitchells thoughts, a timeline is drawn. On it, both emotions and bodies are constantly present. Jon Kabat-Zinns mindfulness method is used to give an insight into how emotions can be handled with inspiration from eastern meditation techniques. The typical “yoga image” is analyzed. It is characterized by a woman doing a yoga pose, often placed in the middle of the image surface in an exotic place. The body ideal is recognized from other fitness contexts. The material is from @kinoyoga which is run by the yoga profile Kino MacGregor. Examining photographs that communicate perfect health puts this thesis questions at the forefront. The study shows that photographs on social media are not static objects but are parts in an ongoing documentation where meaning is not given. Instead meaning keeps transforming and is contently renegotiated. When the boundaries between the physical and digital realities are blurred, it becomes difficult to distinguish the needs of the image from one’s own. The emotional experiences of shortcomings and desires can occur and start to interact. As Instagram's algorithms exploit these emotions, it becomes difficult to break the vicious circle. Instagram users are forced to abide by the app's rules. The responsibility for the ill health generated should be the owners of for-profit companies and political institutions with the power to legislate.